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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5030249" data-attributes="member: 710">Lurker, Skirmisher and Artillery seem to me the best choices. Artillery monsters can strike from range and focus their fire. Lurkers can retreat if it gets to dangerous and come from a surprise angle if they can turn themselves invisible or insubstantial/phasing. Skirmishers have the mobility to follow a retreating character and possibly evade others trying to stop them. Brutes can easily be locked down by a PC Defender. Soldiers can survive multiple PCs focusing on them, and they can make it difficult for the targeted PC to escape, but alone they won't be keeping up. Controllers probably work best if they can attack more freely and hinder everyone, and this doesn't seem to be what you are going for - you want to focus your fire.Maybe a mix of two Skirmishers and a Lurker might work best. The Skirmishers should be able to be good at range and melee, so they can either strike at their target from range or enter the front lines to aid the Lurker (granting combat advantage, drawing the party's attack away from him). Initially, the Skirmishers can lure the party away, with the Lurker appearing only once the intended target seems isolated. Of course this might require a way to actually hamper one of the characters. Maybe by applying conditions to him with the Skirmisher powers. maybe it's enough to just focus fire on him - he might naturally focus more on cover then. Some party members also tend to stay further away, for example Rangers, Warlocks or Wizards. Note that when you allow the NPCs to attack "staggered",e.g. not everyone enters the fight immediately, you have a chance for some surprise "sneak attacks", but the action economy is working more in favor of the PCs. It might be a good idea to use higehr level monsters to compensate for that (and this makes the surprise attack even nastier).</blockquote>

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